WORCESTER Warriors duo Pat Sanderson and Kai Hortsmann will both wear the number eight shirt for their respective England sides at the weekend.

Sanderson will skipper the Test side in their showdown with Australia at Sydney's Telstra Stadium on Sunday while Horstmann has been retained in the England Saxons side for their match with Canada in Toronto. Neither player regularly starts at number eight for Worcester but Sanderson will carry on in the role he fulfilled so successfully in the warm-up fixture against the Barbarians.

Hortsmann impressed in the Saxons' opening match ag-ainst Scotland and has kept his place in the back-row, where he will play alongside David Seymour and Luke Narraway, the former Worcester flanker who is now at Gloucester.

England team to face Australia: Balshaw (Gloucester); T Varndell (Leicester), M Tait (Newcastle), M Catt (London Irish), T Voyce (Wasps); O Barkley (Bath), P Richards (Gloucester); G Rowntree (Lei-cester), L Mears (Bath), J White (Leicester), L Deacon (Leicester), A Brown (Glou-cester), M Lund (Sale Sharks), L Moody (Leicester), P Sanderson (Worcester).

Replacements: G Chuter (Leicester), T Payne (Wasps), C Jones (Sale Sharks), J Worsley (Wasps), N Walshe (Bath), A Goode (Leicester), J Noon (Newcastle).